Kosmos 2057, a Yantar-4K1 (Oktan) film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-U-PVB for the Soviet military; it returned film via small capsules during the mission before its main capsule landed after 53 days in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 556th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 1990, 17:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-009
- Launches in 1990
- 9th of 121
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